First dates never go well on Valentine’s Day. Too much pressure to get that perfect heart shaved into your pubes. What? Shut up! People in LA still have pubic hair, we’ve seen it! This Valentine’s Day, Bawdy is here to make your Hallmark holiday a Holy one: because we know you save the butthole for special occasions and your best adventures happen when alcohol is in the mix, we have something very memorable planned – & we promise you’ll be sitting down funny for a week after this epic evening of storytelling!

In the year since Dixie brought her celebrated Salon of Smut to LA, they’ve won the ‘Best Of’ for Storytelling from the LA Weekly, and turned a whole new world of *virgins* on to this acclaimed Bay Area-based bastion of oversharing. How better to celebrate an anniversary than to host ‘Bottoms Up!’ where Bawdy’s boss lady turns the controls over to you, the audience – and she promises that she won’t top from the bottom. All Dixie wants for VD is to hear some anal admissions: True stories of bad decisions after a cocktail or five? Check. Butthole Experimentation with hilarious results? We’ve got that. Tails of Submission? It’s in the works. And if you find an angle without representation, turn to your neighbor, tell ‘em your story and help us cover ALL the bases. What could possibly go wrong*?

- Kim Airs is a multi-talented entrepreneur, writer, sexuality specialist and founder of the sexuality boutique, Grand Opening!, now on the web at www.grandopening.com Kim’s done just about everything in the adult industry including teaching hundreds of sex ed classes, having a one hour feature on HBO, consults for sex toy start ups, starring in her own one-woman show that premiered in Hollywood and consults with doctors and sex therapists. Kim has presented to dozens of colleges and professional organizations. She currently is the official sex toy blogger for XBIZ and has her own blog at KimAirs.com and enjoys running grandopening.com.

-Sam Feirstein is multiple Moth Story Slam winner, he’s performed at the KCRW Masquerade Ball, and was featured in the CBS Radio Storytellers campaign for Fiat. His story “Alaska Bingo” can be heard in on the KCRW series “Strangers.”

- Ruby Ryder of PeggingParadise.com, is a podcaster, blogger, sex educator and a published writer of erotic fiction. After years of writing erotica which never saw the light of day and many nights spent with fantasies about strap-on sex that never became a reality, she heard Dan Savage encourage a caller to embrace her kinks. Ruby did just that and has never looked back. She spends her time spreading the word about the singular joys of pegging, teaching, writing pegging erotica and doing everything she can to encourage a society in which we can all be exactly who we are, sexually.

- Like Dixie, Slut Bottom Chris is from The South and also has a mouth that would make a Sailor blush. Ex-Navy then briefly software engineer, he’s now a CEO that does porn, too! Like most perverts, he lives his life at odds between what’s socially acceptable and what perverts consider normal. When his day job isn’t sucking the life from his soul, Chris does porn shoots 1-4 times a month, spends time in his local community, and loves every chance to show people to what it’s like to perform anal fisting on him.”slut bottom chris” is both his scene name and his porn name. He is a leather titleholder (California Puppy 2013) and has been active in the Leather scene in San Diego since 2001. He’s a presenter and stunt bottom for anal sex and anal fisting workshops. Be careful getting him talking about his butthole because he’s more open than his ass is! His Fetlife and twitter usernames are both sltbtm_chris.

- Becca Frucht is a host, writer and all-around goddess of gab. She’s currently a TV anchor for a daily entertainment news show and co-host of a weekly pop culture review. She’s displayed her storytelling skillz at NPR’s “The Moth” as well as other story slams around LA (she recently moved back to LA from San Francisco – she’s a regular at Bawdy’s mainstage /curated event). Her love of storytelling inspired her to produce and host her very own monthly storytelling and variety show, TMI Live. Becca likes to wear purple as much as humanly possible, believes in unicorns, wants her own direwolf and thinks oversharing is super sexy.

- J. Keith van Straaten has appeared in storytelling shows in Los Angeles and New York, including Sit ‘N’ Spin, The Liar Show, Pinata, Rant & Rave, Tongue & Groove, and Word Salad. His writing includes blogs and movie guides for Yahoo!, lyrics for ABC News, sketches for Clear Channel Radio, and jokes for a cable TV dominatrix, & his essays have been published in Backstage, Tango, and The Jewish Journal. Currently, J. Keith leads writing workshops through LAWritersGroup.com, is a contributing writer to NPR’s quiz show, “Ask Me Another,” and is approximately 50% of the two-man improv group “Course Correction.”

When & Where

Busby's East
5364 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles,
CA 90036

Friday, February 14, 2014 from 8:30 PM to 11:00 PM (PST)

Organizer

Bawdy Storytelling

Bawdy Storytelling ("The Moth for Pervs" - LA Weekly) is America's Original Sex+Storytelling series featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their bona fide sexual exploits, live onstage. This award-winning performance series is currently monthly in San Francisco and Los Angeles, & expanding to new cities every day. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of authors, sex educators, poets, comedians and actors - along with real people just like YOU who have submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (mis)adventure.